What Are Finite Approximations Anyways?
Trying to Describe The Real World With Maths
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7 min readFeb 20, 2024
How do you think planes are built so that they actually stay in the air? Building a Boeing 747 is another caliber than just a simple plane like the Wright brothers did. How do you conceptualize the wings so they don’t simply snap off mid-air? How do you build the wings to actually generate lift? Certainly not by building and hoping for the best — trial and error. No, this would be too costly. Instead, engineers use simulations to design components. More precisely, they use computer models…